Kit Parks

@peterschweizer Your next book should be an expose titled ‘Traitor’

I spent two years unearthing the money, names, and machine driving The Invisible Coup against our nation, exposing the depth and breadth of how American elites and foreign powers are politically weaponizing mass migration to shape elections and undermine national security. This is the most urgent and shocking investigation of my career, and it should unite us not just in outrage, but in action.

@elonmusk @DOGE Newly on Medicare, after I broke my arm, my ortho office charged almost $700 for a brace. Medicare paid almost $600. I got billed over $100. The EXACT brace retails for $149. We taxpayers are getting SCREWED @elonmusk and @DOGE

Medicaid data has been open sourced, so the level of fraud is easy to identify. @DOGE is not a department, it’s a state of mind.

@russvought I just got a Medicare DME for a DonJoy X-act ROM elbow brace (prefab off the shelf) from my orthopedic office. They billed $683. Medicare paid $562.35. I am to pay $112.47. You can buy the identical brace online for $143. We are getting ripped off not only by fraud but outrageous markups.

@altcap Your IAF plan is great except I think young adults should have more incentive to hold off withdrawing until they are at least 25 and their brains are fully developed (says a former landlord who rented to this age group). I fear instant gratification vs long term benefit will win out, and your goal of creating wealth in folks who likely wouldn't achieve it will be lost to silly cars or hair-brained get rich schemes.

@DrOzCMS I just got a DME for a DonJoy X-act ROM elbow brace (prefab off the shelf) from my orthopedic office. They billed $683. Medicare paid $562.35. I am to pay $112.47. You can buy the identical brace online for $143. We are getting ripped off not only from fraud but outrageous markups.

@ZitoSalena @JonErlichman And no telling how AI will stunt our critical thinking, processing, researching, etc skills

They weren't wrong. Our children's brains needed regular cognitive exercise to develop deep, conceptual understanding of mathematical principles; that dependency on calculators led to students losing the ability to perform basic calculations without the device and stifled critical thinking.

A headline from 1986.

@MariaSTsehai @_AfricanUnion What is the current situation? Are you still recommending not to travel? I have a friend who is supposed to climb Kili soon. I have such fond memories of my visit in 2014. Thank you and may God bless you and your country!

As we said in our travel advisory - do NOT travel to Tanzania - instead raise your voice in your country - tell them #Tanzania is bleeding and #SamiaMustGo Much love and power to every global citizen speaking up for us because @_AfricanUnion is useless 🚮 We are on our own and fight on 💪🏽 until we free our beautiful nation from tyranny! #TanzaniaMassacre

@ZitoSalena I’m open to being adopted (I do dishes)

Hardest part of the meal making the stuffed calamari--the tubes are stuffed with minced clams, onions, breadcrumbs, cheese, and white wine and then baked in a fresh tomato sauce--old Sicilian – Calabrese peasant food recipe

@chrislittlewoo8 Thank you for making me cry! LMAO

I got sent this on WhatsApp and as it’s Christmas I thought I would share it with you x

@ZitoSalena Beautiful! Thank you for posting this!

“It’s the only game where every player on the field is willing to die for everyone else watching.”

@AmericanDebunk $2.43 in NE TN

Gas is $2.80 near me.

@jayplemons @ScottAdamsSays I pray for him daily. I hope he is not in pain.

Scott Adams health update: (No) Coffee With Scott Adams today was from the back of an ambulance on the way to a radiation center. @ScottAdamsSays “So the concept here is that there'll be five days of radiating a tumor on my spine to see if I can regain my leg functions. The prospects are pretty good.” Continue praying for Scott Adams! 🙏

@ZitoSalena I thought you did a great job on the Butler story but actually your book was about so much more. It explains the ‘Trump phenomena’ quite well. Great job!

Hey Yinz guys!!! if you haven't read Butler, or you know someone who hasn't there's a reason it debuted #1 on the New York Times best seller list & it has nothing to do with me & everything to do w/ everyone I interviewed for the book & the places I went a.co/d/7WQeS7N

@ScottAdamsSays Maverick - Mav for short

My friends are looking for a female baby name. Any ideas?

@ZitoSalena What a beautiful tradition!

These are the days. Magical. As Santa makes a special visit to Douglas Heights for the 5th year in a row. It takes a community to make this happen; each family drops off a wrapped present at my home with a neighborhood kids name on it the day before where it then goes into Santa's sack. Santa is picked up from my house by the community volunteer fire department then loaded up with tons of toys (there are over 40 kids in my neighborhood families with lots of multiples) and brought down to the end of our street where the kids are waiting by a bonfire and can hear him coming before he even gets here thanks to the sirens ! There we all gather, and each child gets their present from Santa and tells him what they want for Christmas. Have potluck and pizza and apple cider after❤️

Over 350 miles (and have lived in nine states-south, north, east and west(not mid-west though)). All moves prompted by family or business reasons. Ended up retiring in a small city near the Appalachian mountains. Moved here knowing no one, but it was the first place I ever moved because I personally chose it (childless, widowed retired orphans can do that:) I come from a military family, so never felt like I had a hometown.

The majority of Americans (60+ percent) live within 10 miles of where they grew up with 80 percent living under 100 miles from where they grew up. Place has been the once constant in American life that has endured. ❤️💪🏼☺️

@ScottAdamsSays Coup Kelly or Mutiny Mark

This guy needs a nickname.

Bhutan trekking and hiking adventure! Get a preview of this Thursday's Active Travel Adventures podcast with this video highlighting some of our favorite moments of our recent trip! Look below for access to the video. youtu.be/UcWtTEb6yko #bhutan #bhutantravel #BhutanCulture #adventuretravel #activetravel #trekking #trekkingadventures #hikingadventures #Hiking

Beautifully said! There is a professor (pastor, too, I think) from Ozark Christian College named Shane T Woods. His videos on YouTube are outstanding and I think you, like me, would get something out of them. I'm going through his Daniel series right now, and he brings it all home to apply to your everyday life. Thanks for all you do! Big fan!!!

@mikeroweworks Brilliant analysis and writing, as usual. ( but what else should I expect from a demonstrably intelligent person?). PS: Thank you for introducing me to @ZitoSalena I’m enjoying her Butler book this week.

Ryan McWeeny writes… Sadly, Mike is one of many demonstrably intelligent and reasonable people that has somehow been captivated and caught up in the crossing over from healthy skepticism to conspiratorial mysticism. I will never understand how this happens, but they all eventually become convinced of some thing or another and put the burden of proof on you to disprove their “evidence” which deceptively looks as though it supports their claim by the sheer nature of its unfalsifiability… which is a far cry from it being true. Hello, Mr. McWeeny, and thanks for your comment. I found it this morning on a flight to LA, buried in a flurry of similar disappointment regarding my recent conversation with Gavin de Becker about his new book, Forbidden Facts: Government Deceit & Suppression About Brain Damage from Childhood Vaccines.” In spite of my “demonstrable intelligence” (thanks for that!), you seem to believe I'm mistaken to be curious about the role vaccines might be having on childhood illness. Obviously, you’re not alone. There’s a great hew and cry in the comment section today, and more pearl clutching than usual. But I wonder, Mr. McWeeny, what else you might have in common with those who believe the science is settled. Four possibilities come to mind. 1. You didn’t read the book (which you can get here. bit.ly/4oMAxsz) 2. You didn’t watch to the interview (which you can watch here. bit.ly/4oKIXRg) 3. You have no intention of doing either (which you can accomplish pretty much anywhere.) 4. You believe, like so many others who actually spelled it out for me (often in CAPS and with multiple exclamation points,) that with respect to all things vaccine-related, “THE SCIENCE HAS BEEN SETTLED!!!” To your credit, you didn’t use those actual words, but lots of others did, and I’m wondering if you share their desire to throw the scientific method out the window at a time when both science and skepticism are so critical to our country. Forgive me if you already know this, but I feel it needs to be said, even from a non-scientist like me. The scientific method has less to do with “settling” things and more to do with “testing” things. This is because scientists are always learning and, therefore, often mistaken. It’s the essence of the job. Once upon a time the best minds in science believed the sun revolved around the earth. The finest doctors drained most of the blood from George Washington in a failed attempt to save his life. Like bloodletting, lobotomies were very common, as were tonsillectomies and radical mastectomies. Physicians used to recommend smoking and diets high in sugar, and it was the scientific community who put poor Iggy Semmelweis – the man who paved the way for modern germ theory - into an insane asylum for suggesting that doctors should wash their hands before performing surgery, where he died, ironically, of blood poisoning. Honest question. Mr. McWeeny, for you and all the others who believe @GDBAProtects is a “science denier” and I’m some sort of conspiracy nut. Would you have supported Galileo’s arrest and imprisonment for daring to question the way our solar system actually worked? Would you have accused him of putting the burden of proof on you to disprove the “evidence” by the sheer nature of its unfalsifiability? Most people alive back then did exactly that, and I wonder if you’d be among them. I wonder the same about myself. Not to belabor the point, scientists are not supposed to be certain; they’re supposed to be skeptical – especially when they think they’re correct. They’re supposed to doubt their own findings, and then, if their findings are peer reviewed and accepted as fact, and a consensus forms, a proper scientist - like a proper journalist - will keep his ego and his personal opinion out of it. They will remain objective, ever mindful that new evidence or new information might demand a new conclusion. Science requires humility, along with curiosity, and most of all, doubt. Your position, Mr. McWeeny, requires arrogance, certainty, and a level of institutional trust that seems naïve in today’s environment. And no, you don’t need to be a scientist to know this. Of course, there’s another reason I’m open to the possibility that we’ve been misled, and that’s because we’ve been misled before. Many times. Do you not recall the cover-ups around Agent Orange, Johnson’s Baby Powder, the water in Flint Michigan, the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, the Thalidomide Crisis, the Opioid Crisis, or so many others? Have you forgotten the countless experts who assured us that masking, social distancing, and endless boosters were all scientifically sound? Have you forgotten the way our elected officials, our media, and so many of our top scientists demanded – in the immortal words of Eric Cartman - to “respect my authoritay!!! I fear that you have, Mr. McWeeny. And I worry that lots of other people have, too. I doubt repetition will help my cause, but I’ll say it again. I haven’t said we’ve been lied to about the safety and effectiveness of vaccines. But I’m certainly open to that possibility, because the evidence is compelling. Childhood diseases have exploded in the last two decades. Is it really “conspiratorial mysticism” to wonder if the exploding vaccine schedule might have something to do with that? I know, correlation does not equal causation, and yes, I’m familiar with the Dunning-Kruger Effect, another popular accusation leveled at me in the comment section. (What else would you expect from a “demonstrably intelligent” non-scientist like me?) But why is it so hard for an educated man such as yourself to understand that we can no longer hope to persuade the masses to believe a claim simply because it’s supported by people with the proper credentials? What’s the downside of challenging the status quo, especially in light of new data, or conducting new studies to see what the latest research yields? It's true that Gavin’s book is controversial, and it’s also true that he is not a scientist. Indeed, he makes the point repeatedly throughout his book and our conversation. But it’s also true that he’s earned the trust and respect of several dozen world leaders, including several US presidents and countless CEOs who have trusted him with their lives and the lives of their families. He’s not some hack writer trying to get rich by riling up the masses. Gavin is already rich. He’s also concerned that a lot of Americans have been misled about something profound and consequential. Yes, he is skeptical of the claim that all vaccines are “safe and effective,” but every single claim in his book is backed by an astonishing amount of research and data, all of which are accessible through hundreds of QR codes throughout. So, what’s the problem, exactly? Why are you and so many others threatened by a book that encourages people to look beyond the credentials of an expert and a conversation that encourages people to assume a measure of personal responsibility? And why do you suppose there’s never been a large, robust, and completely transparent study that compares the health of thousands of vaccinated kids to the overall health of unvaccinated kids? Moreover, why do you think there’s so much opposition to conducting and publishing such a study today? I don’t know the answer, Mr. McWeeny, but unlike you, I’m curious to find out. PS. Gavin's book is #1 in three categories, and sends his thanks to you all.